Plutarch
Also known as: Plutarchos · Ploutarchos · Plutarch of Chaeronea · Plutarchus · Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
Plutarch discusses Spartacus’s revolt in his Life of Crassus. Plutarch’s Life of Crassus is a surviving literary source for Crassus’s suppression of the revolt.
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Biographer of Crassus
Plutarch’s Life of Crassus is a surviving literary source for Crassus’s suppression of the revolt.
Ancient narrative source
Plutarch discusses Spartacus’s revolt in his Life of Crassus.
Punishment described in biography
Plutarch’s Life of Crassus describes the mass crucifixion of captured rebels along the Appian Way.